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Please Stop Telling Us Everything Is Fine With the Economy; It Is Not

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Please Stop Telling Us Everything Is Fine With the Economy; It Is Not
Gas prices are displayed at a Chevron station in Los Angeles on on Sept. 19, 2023. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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ERIE, Pa.—Two weeks ago, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman told CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour there is a peculiar disconnect between how the economy is doing and how the public is feeling about it.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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